A tub-thumping stomper about casual sex often addressed onstage to a boa constrictor named Veronica.

Never one to shirk a bit of self-deprecation, Alice takes a pop at his own situation - an ageless fictional character trapped in an aging rocker's body - and comes up laughing, snorting and fighting.

One of the few bright spots from an otherwise execrable period, this incredibly catchy, new wave-inspired electro-pop number was also covered by the Smashing Pumpkins in 1996.

If wearing make-up and giving yourself a lady's name wasn't enough to court controversy (as it was in '71) then skewering dollies on swords while singing about dead babies would certainly have done the trick.

Another huge hit, this slice of hook-laden hard rock had a narrative-led video clip that pre-dated Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' - often cited as the first modern video promo - by a good three years.

A creepy little song about a dead brother in the attic built around an insistent melody, a shuffling piano and a play on words that's so bad it's genius. You did spot the pun now didn't you?

A quirky take on obsession and murder as a dog digs up a victim's bones and happily wags his tail. Contains the finest use of a harpsichord this side of The Stranglers.

'For criminal acts and violence on the stage/ For being a brat, refusing to act your age... you can go to hell.' Proof that Alice was fully aware why his audience loved him and everyone else wanted him strung up.

"Pop is one thing... anthems of necrophilia are quite another," noted MP Leo Abse as he headed an attempt to block the band's UK tour. He had a point, as this song was indeed all about sex with stiffs.

when Alice Cooper was the name of the band as well as its frontman, this tale of teen angst was their first (minor) hit. Still performed live even though Mr Furnier is now approximately 107 years old.

A song about men beating women sung from the woman's perspective by a man with a woman's name. Confusing perhaps but this was also a surprisingly tender and empathetic piece of classic rock balladry.

Co-written with '80s hair-metal hit-maker Desmond Child, 'Poison' was a worldwide smash and re-established Cooper at the forefront of his regrettably poodle-permed progeny. An appalling hi-NRG cover by German dance troupe Groove Coverage also - lamentably - exists.

A Number One single in the UK, this anti-school anthem marked Alice Cooper's transition from underground bogeys to mainstream stars and the moral majority's public enemy Number One.

Spooky and quirky, 'Steven' sounds like the soundtrack to the internal spook show running in Alice's head. Also became a long-running character in the live show.

The straight-jacket set-piece of many an Alice Cooper show, this is a quirky and disturbing seven-minute epic dealing with the aftermath of a mental breakdown and named for horror character actor Dwight Frye.

Written while he was (voluntarily) institutionalised in a bid to treat his alcoholism, this is a wrist-chewing tale of suicidal depression and rubber rooms that's far more disturbing than any amount of supernatural ghoulies.

Humorous vignettes have always been one of Alice's fortes and this tail of a cross-dressing trucker is up there with the classics. 'I'm in jail in a Texas town/ In my sister's wedding gown', it begins, and goes uphill from there.

Melodic, gritty and rampant, this is sneering hard rock at its finest and remains a staple of the Cooper live show to this day.

Forget murder, mayhem and mental cases - here Alice homes in on the truly terrifying subject of dentistry. Just listening to the suitably sweet melody is enough to make your molars ache.

Alice might have committed his fair share of violent acts but he was always against Nazis, bigots and bone-headed hatemongers, as this song amply proves.